José Ignacio Lozano (born 1954) is the son of Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr. and Marta Navarro.Interview of Monica Lozano by Shirley Biagi, Pg.1, Washington Press Club Foundation, 13 December 1993
He is the grandson of

La Opinión ''La Opinión'' is a Spanish-language daily newspaper and website based in Los Angeles, California. It is the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States and the second-most read newspaper in Los Angeles (after '' The Los Angeles Ti ...

newspaper founder Ignacio E. Lozano, Sr. He is the

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and executive

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of Impremedia LLC, the parent company that owns 50% of the newspaper founded by his grandfather.

''La Opinión'' career

In 1976, Lozano was appointed co-publisher of the family newspaper with his elder sister, Leticia Lozano.Hernandez, Sandra: "Stuck in Translation,"

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, 17 June 1999 Leticia Lozano left the paper in 1984, and as a result of his father's retirement, José Lozano took over as the chief and sole publisher and

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from 1986-2004.,Impremedia LLC
He was eventually succeeded as publisher by his younger sister,

Monica C. Lozano Monica Cecilia Lozano (born July 21, 1956) is the president of the College Futures Foundation, based in San Francisco. Previously she was an American newspaper editor, the publisher and CEO of '' La Opinión'' and CEO of its parent company, Impre ...

Other activities

In 2008, he was appointed to the

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.Reuters, 14 August 2008
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. He is on the

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for the

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(public broadcasting TV station for southern California), the

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, the National Law Center for Inter-America Free Trade, and the Corporate Advisory Board of the Latin Business Association. He is on the board of councilors at the

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. He serves on the board of the Skadden Fellowship Foundation, which is sponsored by the law firm of

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. Lozano lives in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lozano, Jose I. American people of Mexican descent American newspaper publishers (people) 1954 births Living people California Democrats People from Manhattan Beach, California American chief executives